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[From the Buffalo Express, August 9, 1872.] 

* * * For this purpose an organization is being perfected that is in- 
tended to reach all parts of the Union, so that there may be a special 
concert of effort among the Germans of America in behalf of the Repub- 
lican candidates. The society is known as the " German-American 
United Association of the United States." They have established their 
head-quarters at the Germania Assembly Rooms in New York City. 
The organization represents the German Republicans of twenty-three 
different cities of the Union — among them Boston, Chicago, Philadel- 
phia, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Memphis, Ncav Orleans, Richmond and 
Charleston. The Central Executive Board have just issued a circular, 
in which is set forth what we believe to be the real sentiments of the 
majority of our German fellow-citizens. 

The association embraces in its membership many of the leading- 
citizens of the metro})olis, and prominent business men throughout the 
country. They are men who have no care for office, but they have 
enrolled themselves in I his work as a patriotic duty, firmly believing 
that the Republican party is the true and only representative in this 
country of genuine Democracy. 

The Germans do not forget Mr. Greeley's hostility to them in the 
past, and liis affected friendship for them now will not be as effectual 
with them as with the old Bourbon Democracy. As a class, therefore, 
it may be considered settled that the Germans will support General 
Grant. 



[From tlic Philadelphia Bulletin, August 19th, 1872.J 

Mr. M.Mandl, the President of the German- American United Asso- 
ciation of the United States, has been engaged for some time in the 
Eastern and Middle States in oi-ganizing political clubs among the 
German Republicans. He has been remarkably successful in his efforts 
in this and other cities, and we believe that as a result we shall have 
the best answer to Senator Schurz's assumption that he carries the 
German vote, in a poll, at the next election, of an unsually large Gei-- 
man vote against the Greeley and Schui-z party. ]\[r. Mandl has now 
gone to the West to carry on the good work in that section. He will 
proceed first to Indianapolis, where he will set in motion the forces 
which will enable the German Republicans to do a handsome share in 
the work of carrying their State. 



[From the Indianapolis Journal, August SOtli, 1873,] 

Hon M. Mancll, President of the " German-American United Asso- 
ciation " of New York was in the city yesterday. He reports the 
Germans of New York and the East generally as thoroughly aroused 
and determined to beat the liran bread and cold water candidate. Mr. 
Mandl will organize a branch of the association while in this city, and 
we learn that two or three prominent Germans have already signified 
their willingness to take the Presidency. He brings cheering news 
from Pennsylvania, where the Germans, almost without exception, are 
for Grant and Wilson. He goes from here to Chicago, where he will 
address the Germans. 



[From the New York Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 3d, 1872.] 

The Executive Committee and the chairmen of the various Ward 
organizations of the German-American United Association of the 
United States met last evening at the Teutonia Assembly Rooms in 
the Bowery, to make arrangements for holding a mass-convention of 
Germans, at wliich delegates will be pi-esent representing the different 
branch bureaus of the organization in the United States. 

The Pi-esident, Mr. Mandl, made an interesting report of his recent 
tour through Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Indiana, Pennsyl- 
vania and the District of Columbia, for the purpose of organizing 
branch bureaus in the interest of Grant and Wilson. 

After discussion, October 24 was fixed as the day for holding the 
Convention of Delegates, at Teutonia Assembly Rooms, at 8 P. M. 



LETTER FROM JUDGE J. M. EDMUNDS, SECRETARY OF 
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRES- 
SIONAL COMMITTEE. 

[Extract ] 

Washington, D. C, May 21st, 18t2. 
■ This will be presented by Dr. S. Ehrenherg, President of the 
Gerinan- American Progressive Associatio?i, a resolute and active 
Republican, who desiret^, in aid of the Republican cause, to visit 
several of the Western States, with the view of enlistiug the active 



co-operation of his German fellow-countrymen in an organized move- 
ment looking- to the success of the Republican party in the pending 
Presidential election. 

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It is hoped that all able and earnest friends of the cause will en- 
deavor to aid him in his well-directed and practical labors. 

(Signed) 

J. M. Edmunds, 

Secretary Republican National Congressional Committee. 



LETTER FROM BON. COLUMBUS DELANO, ON RECEIPT OF 
THE PLATFORM OF THE G. A. PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIA- 
TION. 

Department of the Interior,) 
Washington, D. C, June G, 1872. j 

Dear Sir : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of 
the 30th ultimo, containing the platform and circular of the German- 
American Progressive Association, for which please accept my 
thanks. It is an excellent document in the right direction, and I 
feel sure will go a great way towards accomplishing what all true 
Republicans so much desire. 

I am. Sir, 

Very, respectfully yours, 
(Signed) Columbus Delano. 

Dr. S. Ehrenberg, 

President G. A. P. A, 

New York City. 



From the JV. T. Times, Avgust '?>\st. 
GERMAN-AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION. 
The Central Executive Board of the German-American Progressive 
Association of the United States met at Teutonia Hall last night, in 
general session The presiding officer. Dr. S. Ehrenberg, opened the 
proceedings by saying that, as the Secretary, Mr. Hugo Eloesser, was 
at the present time busy in tlie western part of the State with sup- 



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erintending' the necessary arrangements for the election of delegates 
to their projected National Convention, he would propose that Mr- 
Charles N. Josephson, of the Twenty-first Ward, should temporarily 
fill his place. The Secretary ji^ro tern, then read a condensed resumd 
of the reports from the branch organizations in the different States, 
concluding with a list of delegates, elected for the Convention in sev- 
enteen States. The various reports speak in the most enthusiastic 
terms of the prospects among the Germans for Grant and Wilson, 
and it is remarkable that just in such States as Indiana, Wisconsin, 
Missouri, where, according to the assertions of the Greeleyites, their 
main strength is among the Germans, matters are reported to look 
very cheerful. 

The member from the Nineteenth Ward, Maurice Isidore, Esq., 
suggested that, as soon as practicable, a manifesto to the German 
voters of the United States should be issued by the Association, in 
which the political situation ought to be thoroughly reviewed. He 
particularly desired to have two paragraphs embodied in this docu- 
ment which had but latel}' been published in several German Repub- 
lican papers. One of them consisted in extracts from Greeley's or- 
gan. Speaking of the German troops after the battle of Chancellors- 
ville, it declared that the 

"Whole pack of cowardly Dutcimaen, who bad run after their lead- 
er, Gen Schurz, like so many sheep, in disgraceful flight, ought to be 
shot, or, if that would not do, at least to be decimated.'' 

The other was the fact that the official bureau for the protection of 
emigrants, established in Germany, had recently sent a congratula- 
tory message to the President on the results of the benevolent influ- 
ence of the facilities given to emigration by the present Administra- 
tion. 

A committee, consisting of the Chairman and Messrs. Josephson 
and Eberhard, were then appointed to confer with the National Com- 
mittee on this subject. Letters were read by the Secretary from 
Judge Edmunds, of the Republican Congressional Committee, Judge 
Carter, and Lieut. -Governor Jacob Mueller, from Ohio, and others, 
encouraging the Association and praising its efforts. 

A number of applications from the branch bureaus for campaign 
documents and speakers were referred to the Committee of five se- 
lected for that purpose. 

After settling some routine business, the Board adjourned to Sept. 
15, when it is expected that the reports from all the States will have 
come in, and a definite time for holding the Convention will be set- 
tled upon. 



THE CALL.. 

A CALL TO THE GERMAN CITIZENS OF THE UNITED 

STATES TO ASSEMBLE IN CONVENTION, AND 

TO RATIFY THE NOMINATIONS OF THE 

REPUBLICAN PARTY MADE 

. AT PHILADELPHIA. 

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN PRO- 
GRESSIVE AND THE GERMAN-AMERICAN 
UNITED ASSOCIATIONS. 

The time has come when every citizen, who has the welfare of his 
adopted country at heart, must choose between the nominees of the 
abortivp Cincinnati Convention — a body of irresponsible and unscru- 
pulous political adventurers — and the nominees of the Republican 
party at Philadelphia — an assemblage, whose deliberations were 
characterized throughout by the utmost harmony, dignity, fairness 
and genuine enthusiasm. 

The choice between the nominees of those conventions is certainly 
a very easy one — much more so for the Germans. 

The present administration, represented by the man of noble im- 
pulse, that brave soldier, whose undaunted courage restored peace 
and tranquillity to our country, GENERAL U. S GRAXT, is cer- 
tainly more acceptable with all its faults — 

''ERE ARE RUMANUM EST' 

— than the epoch of confusion, uusafety, unsound financial and com- 
mercial policy and " isms " with which which we are threatened by 
the Cincinnati nominee. 

Moreover, the " Liberal" candidate is a man whose principles give 
the lie to the name of his party : a man of narrow mind, an orthodox 
and fanatic, an enemy to social and religious freedom, whose en- 
mity to progressive ideas has heretofore been frequently condemned 
by the German press and by their representative men. 

Neither can any true German be in doubt as to where his sympa- 
thies must go in the choice between HENRY WILSON, the benevo- 
lent and big-hearted patriot, and GRATZ BROWN, who treacher- 
ously sold out his friend and benefiictor. 

We therefore call on the German citizens of the United States to 
select worthy representative.-, who, at a time and I'lace hereafter to be 



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specified, in convention assembled, shall ratify and uphold the nomina- 
tions made by the Republican party at Philadelphia, all its proceed- 
ings, platform and resolutions, and adopt the same for action in the 
coming campaign 



THE GERMAN-AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE AND UNITED AS- 
SOCIATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES; FOR THE CEN- 
TRAL EXECUTIVE BOARDS : 

Dr. S. Ehrenberg, 

President G. A. P. A. 
M. Mandl, 

President G. A. U. A. 

[From the Commercial Advertiser, Oct. 25.] 

THE GERMAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 

MEETING OF DET.EGATES AT TEUTONIA HALL DEPUTATIONS EROM EVERT 

STATE IN THE UNION STIRRING SPEECHES AND GREAT 

ENTHUSIASM CARL SCHURZ PRONOUNCED 

A TRAITOR — HIS ACTIONS DE- 
NOUNCED RESOLU- 
TIONS. 

The German National Convention, held under the auspices of the 
German American Progressive rind the German-American United As- 
sociations, met at the Teutonia Assembly Rooms yesterday. 

The Convention was opened by Dr. 8. Ehrenberg, President of the 
German- American Progressive Association, -pro tern • 246 delegates 
were present, representing 24 States, the numbers of the various dele- 
gates being as follows : 

California, 4 ; Connecticut 7 ; Indiana, 12 ; Illinois, 16 ; Iowa, 12 ; 
Kansas, 12 ; Kentucky, 6 ; Louisiana, 6 ; Michigan, 10 ; Massachusetts, 
4 ; Mississippi, 8 ; Missouri, 16 : Maryland, 8 ; New York, 25 ; New 
Jersey, 9; North Carolina, 6; Nebraska, 6; Ohio, 19; Nevada, 8; 
Pennsylvania, 18 ; Rhode Island, 6 ; Tennessee, 6 ; AVest Virginia, 4, 
and Wisconsin, 18 

Mr. Louis Bloquelle, of Michigan, was elected Permanent Chairman, 
and in a neat and most ap})roj)riate speech welcomed the various dele- 
gates. He then expressed his deep sense of gratification at being 
called upon to preside over a meeting comjiosed of such highly intel- 
lectual men, who had come from all parts of the Union to manifest 
then- implicit faith in the Republican party and its 



TRUSTY LEADERS. 

Although the several associations under whose auspices the Conven- 
tion was called had worked secretly and without the usual pompous 
display customary in. political campaigns, it was obvious that their 
labors were not in vain, for this fact was conclusively proven by the 
firm stand his Teutonic brethren had taken in the late elections. 
(Loud applause.) 

Mr. M. Mandl, President of the German-Amei-ican United Asso- 
ciation, was then called upon to address the Convention. This gentle- 
man is a scholar and finished orator. He gave a brilliant and succinct 
account of how the Germans had always come to the front in great 
struggles on reformatory movements ever since the days of Luther. 
When their leaders, however, had so far forgot their honor and dig- 
nity as to conspire with the enemy, they had always been speedily re- 
pudiated. The Germans in this country, continued the speaker, do 
not believe in the infallibility either of the Pope or of any statesman, 
however potential or learned he might be. 

SENATOR CART, SCHUKZ 

had coolly, but rashly, undertaken to quietly annex the whole Gei-raan 
vote and carry it into the camp of the enemy. But, alas for him, he 
discovered, when too late for retrogression, that those who had for- 
merly hailed him as their chief were neither knaves nor idiots, but 
men who had the good sense and honesty to remain where they had 
always found safety and protection, wisdom and righteousness — with- 
in the ranks of the Republican party. (Tumultuous cheering.) 

The reports of the various delegations were then read and were all 
unanimously adopted, after which the Convention adjourned until 
half-past eight p. m , Evening Session. Upon reassembling at the 
appointed hour the Committee on Resolutions submitted their repoi't. 
The following resolutions were adopted with enthusiasm : — 

The German Republicans, in National Convention assembled, again 
declare their unbounded and unshaken faith in the Republican party, 
in consideration of the fact that under its suj)remacy they have pros- 
pered and have been elevated to the highest standard of political and 
social equality, and that in the resolutions adopted by the Convention 
of that party at Philadelphia " complete liberty in the enjoyment of all 
civil, political and public rights are guaranteed to all men without re- 
lation to birth, color, creed or nation,'' thus fulfilling the highest 
aim which the progressive mind of the German population has always 



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striven to reach ; and, in further consideration that the efforts of some 
over-ambitious and unscrupulous leaders among our fellow citizens to 
entice them from this party into the suioport of a candidate for the 
Presidency whose views, ideas, theories and doctrines have always 
been antagonistic to our better judgment, have ignominiously failed ; 
and whereas the present administration has shown its great regard for 
the German population of the United States and their compatriots of 
the Fatherland by the generous protection which it extended to them 
at various times during the late Franco-German war through its Am- 
bassadors and consuls, and furthermore by the vigorous measures 
instituted for the better protection of emigrants ; and whereas the 
German citizens do not desire to knowingly injure their own social, 
political and connnercial p]-os]>erity by helping to effect a change in 
the administration under which they have so well flourished ; and 
whereas the renomination of Ulysses S. Grant for the Presidency and 
that of Henry Wilson for the Vice-Presidency has not been the result 
of a corrupt bargain between a Democratic clique and " Liberal " rene- 
gades, which has already been repudiated at the October elections by 
the German citizens of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, but the unan- 
imous wish of the purest and most respectable elements of the Repub- 
lican party ; therefore. 

Resolved, That we hei'eby pledge our most vigorous, harmonious 
and earnest support to the candidates of the Republican party. Grant 
and Wilson ; and that all our efforts from now until election shall 
tend to increase the majorities which will insure their triumphant 
election in all the loyal States of the Union. 

Dr. Ehrenberg supported the resolutions in an able speech, after 
which they were enthusiastically adopted 

Several gentlemen in turn then addressed the Convention, urging 
the claims of the Republican i)arty to govei'n the country, and decrying 
the action taken in many instances by the Democrats in tlieir efforts to 
gain the rod of power, after which the Convention hilariously ad- 
journed. 

MlNISTPni WASHBURNE— THANKS OF THE GERMANS FOR HIS AID TO 
THEIR COUNTRYMEN— MR. WASHI5l'RNE'S REPLY— PARIS DUR- 
ING THE SIEGE, AND UNDER THE COMMUNE. 

At the Fifth Avenue Hotel, this murnino-, a pleasant interchange 
of courtesies took place between Minister Wasliburne and the repre- 
sentatives of the German Associations. Tlie following address was 
presented to Mr. Washburne as a grateful recognition of his kind- 
ness toward the German residents of Paris during the horrors of the 
siege : 






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His Excellency Elihu B. Washburne, U. S. Minister to Frame. 

Sir,- The members of the undersigned Association desire, through 
their representative Central Executive Boards, to pay a well de- 
served tribute to the liberal, benevolent and generous spirit shown 
by you towards their compatriots during the trying period of the 
siege of Paris. Not only did you carry out to the letter the already 
liberal instructions of our present administration — to which the 
Germans of this country will ever be indebted for such noble sym- 
pathy, whicli was eager to manifest itself by deeds — but you volun- 
tarily made sacrifice of personal comfort, you opened your own cof- 
fers and larders to the needy and starving Germans, and gave 
cheerfully from your own stores and provisions. Under the glori- 
ous flag of your native country our adopted fatherland gathered 
those who were persecuted by the fierce bitterness of all those hate- 
ful passions aroused by the furies of war, and tlie shelter wliich you 
provided for them has undoubtedly saved many from perisliing oy 
the hands of an infuriated mob. Your action, excellent sir, will al- 
ways be gratefully remembered by the Germans of this country, 
which you so creditably represented in that great crisis. And, al- 
though history itself will commend your noble action to the admira- 
ration of the world, stiil we trust you will condescend to receive this 
faint expression of our gratitude, and in recognition of the great ser- 
vice which you rendered to the cause of progressive humanity. 

We have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient 
servants, 

Dr. S. EHRENBERG, 
President of the German- American Progressive Association. 
M. MANDL, 
President of the German- American United Association. 



MR. WASHBURNE'S REPLY. 

Fifth Avenue Hotel, | 
New York, Oct. 28, 1812. J 

Gentlemen — 1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the 
Address which you have had the kindness to present to me in behalf 
of the German-American Associations of which you are respectively 
the President. You are good enough to speak of my action during 
the late war between France and Germany, when, as Minister of the 
United States to Paris, I was charged with the protection of the sub- 
jects of the North German Confederation, of Saxony, of Darmstadt, 
and Hesse Grande Ducale, who found themselves in France on the 
breaking out of hostilities. You but give me too much credit for 
the services I was able to render under the circumstances. It is to 
the administratioi) of General Grant that such credit is due, for it 
was by its specific direction that I complied with the request of the 
German Government to assume the protection of the Germans in 
France during the continuance of the war between the two countries. 
When the French Government readily and promptly assented to my 
assumption of that protection, it became simply my duty to extend 



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it so as to make it effective as possible, consistent with the neu- 
trality to be observed as the representative of a neutral power. I 
felt that I correctly interpreted the feelings of the Government and 
the people of the United States when I followed the inclinations rf 
my own heart in doing all in my power to aid the unfortunate people 
then placed under iny charge, and to alleviate their sufferings. 

If I was able to" send 30,000 Germans, who fell under the order 
given liy the Government of the Empire for their expulsion out of 
Paris before the gates of the city were finally closed, it was because 
the German Government, with unbounded liberality, furnished me 
with all the necessary means for that purpose, and the French Gov- 
ernment gave me every suppoit in discharge of my duty If I was 
able, during the last days of the terrible siege of Paris, to secure 
protection and furnish means of support to some 3,000 Germans who, 
in the last stages of miser}^ and suffering, flocked to our Legation, it 
was because the Government of the National Defence caused my 
position to be respected. And if I was able, after the siege, to con- 
tinue my protection, it was because I had the support of the French 
Republic, and of the illustrious man, M. Thiers, who is at the head 
of the Government. And, perhaps, nothing could better exemplify 
the power of our country, and the respect paid to our flag, than that 
the Commune of Paris, in its career of crime and blood, released on 
my demand more than a hundred Germans who had been thrown 
into prison, guiltless of any crime, and subjected to frightful 
persecutions. 

You will therefore perceive, gentlemen, that if I succeeded in the 
accomplishment of my duty under somewhat trying and difficult cir- 
cumstances, it was due in a great measure to causes independent of 
my own action. 1 simply discharged a delicate and responsible duty 
which had been devolved upon me to the best of my ability. Yet I 
can but be gratified to know that my conduct has been approved. My 
own Government has given me its fullest approbation. Prince de 
Bismarck not only communicated to me officially the thanks of the 
Emperor of Germany, but in his private correspondence was pleased 
to compliment me in the ki)idest terms for what I had been able to do 
for his countrymen. The French Government made no complaint of 
the manner in which I discharged my duties, and now, if my course 
has the approbation of my German fellow-citizens in the United 
States, who were allied by so many ties of sympathy and blood to 
those whom it was my fortune to endeavor to serve, I beg to assure 
you it is a source of profound satisfaction to me, and I beg to tender 
to the members of your Associations my sincere and grateful thanks 
for the kind address you have so courteously presented to me. 

I have the honor to be, gentlemen, very respectfully, your obe- 
dient servant, 

E. B. Washburne. 

M. Mandl, President of the German-American United Association, 
and Dr. S. Ehrenberg, President of the German-American Progres- 
sive Association, New York City. 



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